Pros
Solid company to work for. Good benefits and strong team culture. Everyone at the office is friendly and always ready to help.

Cons
It sometimes has too many bureaucratic tendencies restricting employees. Team atmosphere should not make you jump through hoops and receive a certified stamp of approval from a faceless group to determine whether you are deserving of a compensation adjustment

Advice to Senior Management
Keep up morale with some better out of office activities

Pros
The company was a flat organization and they provided a lot of small fun activities. fairs ect when there was a holiday for example at Valentines day they gave everyone in the organization a red or pink cup cake

Cons
There is not a lot of advancement potential. There is a lot of in-fighting between markets.

Pros
I started working there during the time when ladies did not have to wear panty hose during the summer any longer and men did not have to wear sports coats and ties. So I would say a pro is relaxed environment. I was "upstairs" which was very different than the sales department downstairs. The infrastructure team was pretty laid back as long as you got your work done.

Cons
Leadership was deadset on staying in charge. A young friend was in the process of getting a promotion and one of the VP's told him he might be "too young" to handle the job. Two years later he is excelling in the role. Not only is this a HUGE HR violation, this is not how to run a company. It is good to have new ideas, and important to promote younger people to give them an opportunity to prove themselves instead to stereotyping them based on age alone. That's TESSCO for you. Its an old Baltimore company that is set in its ways.

Advice to Senior Management
Advice to management is listen to the younger generation. You don't have to take all their advice, but at least invite them into the board rooms and pretend to not be so discriminating.

Cons
ore of "Cult" than culture. There is no innovation. Lacks vision and direction. Does not value people but rather treats them like pawns. They are running the entire business on DOS! If you like being micro-managed than this is the place for you. It's all about call volume and not quality. There is no innovation within this company. Everything is about metrics that are frankly dated and de-value relationships with customers. Be prepared to enter a land of confusion of this fake "tech firm".

Advice to Senior Management
Sell the business to Anixster or another distributor and close the doors. It is business as usual and the company is content riding this leaking boat to the bottom. If there is a Titanic in the industry today it is Tessco how fast it sinks is the real mystery.

Pros
Friendly supervisors and team co-workers. Overall positive happy cultural environment. Staff does things for birthdays (ballon, card, food and lunch), Raven's Football and Holidays.
TESSCO does give out value share bonuses every year if the company does well. Get that extra check!
If you have a cool supervisor and have an important role then your annual evaluation review will be awesome.
You get a lot of vacation time and flexible schedule. From my experience, my supervisor was very understanding when I needed time off if I was sick or planning vacation. My supervisor was NOT micromanagement if I was running a few minutes late which was great.
Tuition reimbursement benefits. Get that Master's degree paid by TESSCO! If you are pursuing a Master's that relates to your job at TESSCO then the company will cover you.
I recommend this company for a young professional looking to build 2-3 years of experience on their resume. After that, move on if there are no other positions that interest you.

Cons
Your career won't really advance unless your boss or someone with executive powers favors you. It's all about WHO you know and how MUCH they LIKE you. Your skills and previous experience could be great but if your supervisor favors someone else there is nothing you can do really. My experience started out great but then went flat like a soda that is why this review is rated 3 stars. If I could rate 3.5, I would.
Some projects are given to a "favorite" on a high level exposure while other employees get small unnoticeable projects or they are ignored even though they have the skills and experience.
Also TESSCO invests in new hires but will sometimes drop employees that have been with the company 10 years or more. Within 2 weeks I saw 3 people get fired when the company wasn't doing well. One person was replaced by a fresh college grad that they can pay for less for doing the same thing.
Also I've seen the CEO promote people to VP level or hire a new VP above managers that have been there awhile because he likes them.

Advice to Senior Management
For annual evaluations, allow employees the opportunity to submit anonymous feedback to voice concerns to help monitor favoritism or unfair activity.
More diversity in executive roles. Where are the Black or Latino Vice Presidents? I've seen like one Asian and one Indian at an executive level.